{"id":109,"date":"2010-04-05T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/NewZealand\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-06-10T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:12:10","slug":"day-2-los-angeles-to-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 \u2013 Los Angeles to Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I write this, we\u2019re about two hours from our arrival in Auckland.<\/p>\n

The long haul flight from Los Angeles to Auckland was comfortable.\u00a0 The service with Air New Zealand is excellent, the meals were wonderful and the seats spacious.\u00a0 There is simply no comparison to Air Canada.\u00a0 I highly recommend Air NZ to anyone who may have them as an option for an upcoming trip.<\/p>\n

We were able to relax in the lounge (pictured below) and have a refreshing shower and a meal before the cabin crew greeted us and personally escorted us to our departure gate.<\/p>\n

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Here we are getting ready for take-off.\u00a0 The seats were very comfortable and allowed us to stretch out and get a good night\u2019s sleep on the plane.<\/p>\n

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From the champagne and orange juice upon boarding, to the six course dinner and five course breakfast served, we certainly did not arrive hungry.\u00a0 The wide selection of complimentary New Zealand wines on board was a fantastic way to sample some of the local wines.<\/p>\n

We made a brief stop in Rarotonga (Cook Islands) along the way, where we had to step off the plane for about 60 minutes while they refuelled.\u00a0 The sun was up when we resumed the flight, and it\u2019s obviously a very beautiful place.\u00a0 However, I didn\u2019t want to risk any more pictures.\u00a0 It was so hot and humid that my camera lens was fogging on the first photo shown below!<\/p>\n

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As I write this, we\u2019re about two hours from our arrival in Auckland. The long haul flight from Los Angeles to Auckland was comfortable.\u00a0 The service with Air New Zealand is excellent, the meals were wonderful and the seats spacious.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-new-zealand-australia","tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}